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Letters Patent No. 88,408, lated Ma/rcll 30, 1869.

CIG-AR-ASIEI HOLDER, &c.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom/t fina/y concern Be it known that I, ADoLPH PHILIPP, of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, and Kingdom of Great Britain, have invented a new and improved Apparatus to be Employed as a Combined Cigar, Ash, and Light-Holder, and whist or other game-marker; and 1 do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention is designed to supply an apparatus to be used for the 'convenience of cardplayers and smokers, in which are combined the receptacles and articles required by them.

The improved apparatusiconsists of a chamber, containing a movable drawer, or dish, for the reception of ci gar or tobacco-ashes or cigar-ends, and used matches. This chamber is, by preference, (not necessarily,) situated about the centre, and over this ash-dish, wires, or bars are placed, on which to rest the cigar when not in the fingers, and against whichy to rub the ash from the cigar. At one end of this chamber is a box, or receptacle, with a lid, containing lights, or matches, which should be such as leave no smoke or odor after ignition, and which are lighted by friction on the inter-v nal open lid ofthe box. At the other end of the chamber a box is formed to contain counters for gainesg andthe lid is perforated with small holes, in certain positions, for theadmission of pegs to mark the game of cards being played, such as whist, and similar games and the upper edges of the sides of the apparatus, from end to end, are perforated asa"cribbageboard, for

`marking c1ibbage, and such gamesv If the apparatus be made of suh'icient width and depth, a receptacle may also be placed for packs of cards, and in some instances an inkstand may be substituted for the end counter-holder and marker, for

those who write and smoke. v

The whole combined apparatus is supported on short legs, which being sunk into holes in the table, prevent it being turned over, or it may be secured by a spring or screw-clamp.

In order that the invention may be better understood and explained in detail, I have hereunto attached a sheet of drawings made about the full size.

Figure l represents a plan View of the combined game-marker, cigar and ash-holder, and glass-supporter, and

Figure 2 represents a side view of the same..

In gs. l and 2, a a! is the -outer box, or case, divided into two end, b b, and a middle compartment, c, the two ends being furnished with lids, or covers, and one boX, so formed, is to contain matches, or lights, and the other, loose counters, and the' lids may be used for indicating the state of a game of cards, as seen at b, which is averaged for marking short whist. The upper edges of the box a are perforated with a scries of holes, to contain pegs to mark the game called cribbage; and in the middle division, a movable drawer slides, which receives the ashes and remnants of cigars, and may be emptied when full.

c The bars, or rods d Z are curved at one end, wherein to place the cigar when not in the lingers, and one of the bars is provided with a cutter and circular aperture, by the use of which the end of a cigar may be eut olf.

At the outside ofthe box, a metallic'plate, or band,

e, is arranged, the ends of which abut Vagainst spring'- stops cf, when drawn outward into acircnlar projection, and so forms a guard, or support' to receive a glass containing any beverage, and which, when not used, is released by depressing one of the spring-stops, and is flat against the side of the box, as seen in dotted lines.

Having thus fully described my invention,

What'l claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- .ent of the United States, is-

ADOLPH PHIL'IPP. 

